You're completely right. I've very fortunate, and that does give me the ability to ignore certain things. I make sure to have an understanding of what is going

You're completely right. I've very fortunate, and that does give me the ability to ignore certain things. I make sure to have an understanding of what is going on, and my active ignorance is more of a way to avoid things I'm already aware of, where my knowledge of the event doesn't help progress anything. The example that pops in my head first is COVID. I knew what was going on with COVID and how to keep myself and others safe. My issue was that it was circulating everything 24/7, while not offering new information the vast majority of the time. It became very anxiety inducing to see a ton of articles every day that end up just being filler with tangential evidence of nothing new. But you're completely correct, I'm very fortunate, and I should have clarified more on where and when I choose to ignore certain things.